FORMER governorship candidate of Mega Progressive People’s Party, MPPP, in Delta State, Alaowei Afro Biukeme, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and her Niger Delta Ministry counterpart, Elder Godsday Orubebe for “not making any impact in the Niger Delta region.”

BENIN CITY—Chairman, Police Service Commission, PSC, and Presidential Committee on the Reform of Nigerian Police Force, Mr Parry Osayande, (rtd), yesterday, said the recommendation made by his committee for the scrapping of Ministry of Police Affairs was not personal but in the best interest of the Police.

ONITSHA—THE Archbishop of Catholic Arch-Diocese of Onitsha, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, yesterday urged the Anambra State Police Command to fish out the killers of one Miss Francisca Okoli, 22, killed by armed robbers for resisting attempts to rape her.

Dreadlocks were made popular by reggae legend Bob Marley, but it was not until the last decade that the hairdo became desirable, so much so that men and women both see it now not only as the epitome of convenience and afrocentrism but also high style. These folks about town speak about their relationship with their hair and what wearing dreadlock means to them.

STAFF of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Ibadan Network Centre, yesterday, blocked the entrance to the broadcast station over non-payment of their four months salary, blaming the newly-introduced Integrated Personnel Payroll System, IPPS, for the lapses.